Category Archives: holidays

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Go Fourth to the Quarter

Priceline.com travel website is calling the French Quarter the top destination for July 4th travelers, based on more than 30,000 hotel room booking requests processed through the site.

(Or maybe our visitors just love Priceline…)

Essence Festival information here

(Essence Festival is a huge event that should be embraced by the local powers that be more than it has been. July used to be a loss for most of the tourist area and now hotels are sold out and welcoming restaurants get crowds all weekend)…

Go Fourth On The River

Fireworks Extravaganza at 9:00 p.m.

This unique salute to America’s Independence will feature a fireworks display from two barges over the Mighty Mississippi (between Gov. Nichols St. Wharf and Canal St. Dock). Choreographed to stirring patriotic classics and simulcast on Magic 101.9 and WWL AM paints beautiful strokes of radiant light with the sky as a canvas and color as the palette.

(I assume my readers realize that is cut and pasted from their press release; “beautiful strokes of radiant light? Calm down; it’s explosions set to music. But enjoy if that’s what you’re into…)

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3 Easter parades to roll in French Quarter Sunday

For in your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it
You’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade…
all 3 of them.
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Make My House a Mardi Gras Float by Levy Easterly – GoFundMe

talk about “eyes on the street”!
If you have been to the corner of Barracks and Chartres during Carnival in the past few years, you have seen this house. Always decked out in Mardi Gras finery and welcoming dogs.

Help Levy reach his goal of topping himself with this latest idea for Fat Tuesday. (They also have “porch sales” throughout the year where great deals can be had….)

and get some serious Karnival Karma for helping with this.

Make My House a Mardi Gras Float by Levy Easterly – GoFundMe.

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New Year festivities at the Mississippi River

Another amazing picture from local photographer Roy Guste

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Designs for living the New Orleans life

JUST in time for the holidays (I’m sure that’s a coincidence!) French Quarter resident Ellen Macomber’s newest creations are available. The girl of many talents has now added these gorgeous blankets to her list of artistic creations, which as many know, include her one of a kind paintings on architectural pieces (see one hanging at Mona Lisa Pizza on Royal and many hanging at Still Perkin’ uptown), her My Louisiana postcard and coloring book which is one of my favorite gifts to give when I travel, and some other fashion stuff that is beyond me but that my stylish friends tell me is “fab” (that’s an Ellen word too by the way..)
Listen, this young woman is putting some great art out there and you should too by gifting it for the holidays, whether the Santa one or as the thank you gift to your Mardi Gras parade route home away from home…

Ellen Macomber’s new Louisiana blankets are dry and ready to ship!

http://www.ellenmacomber.com

www.ellenmacomber.com.

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Pie Eating Contest at the “Boo Carré” Festival

Sunday, October 21 at 2:00 PM

free and open to the public

French Market Fare Demonstration Stage (located between Ursulines and Governor Nicholls Streets)

Join the French Market’s 4th annual Boo Carre Halloween and Harvest Festival! A pie eating contest, featuring Loretta’s Pralines’ sweet potato pies, will take place at 2PM with SoFAB director Liz Williams presiding. We’ll take the time between bites to discuss Southern pie culture.